In The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli presents a view of governing a state that is drastically different from that of humanists of his time. Machiavelli believes the ruling Prince should be the sole authority determining every aspect of the state and put in effect a policy which would serve his best interests. These interests were gaining,…

Biography Niccolo Machiavelli is one of the major political philosophers of our times. He was an Essayist, dramatist historian, sketch writer, biographer, dialogist, writer of novellas and a poet. Machiavelli was born on May 3rd,1496, in a family of a Doctor of Law, in Florence Italy. In 1498 he helped to dispose of Giroiamo Savonarola…

Introduction, Purposes and Approaches Social and political philosophers are concerned with defining and interpreting concepts like justice, freedom, authority and democracy in a modern context as well as in the past. These two branches of philosophy overlap so much they are usually treated as one area of philosophy. If there is an actual difference it…